Shoe-heel.



E. GUVELIBBJ.

SHQB HEEL. APPLICATION FILED MAR 2,1914.

1,108,975@ Patented-Se t. 1 1914 W/fneges. Inventor.

-Edward CUVG/IQK" EDWARD CUVELIER, OF HALIFAX, NOVA SCGTIA, CANADA.

SHQE-HEEL.

Specification oi Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. it, 1914.

Application filed March 2, 1914. Serial No. $21,955.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD Cuvnmnn, gentleman, of the city of Halifax, in the county of Halifax, Province of Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Heels, of which the following is the specification.

This invention relates to shoe heels, and the objects of the invention are to'devise a new and particularly simple form of interchangeable heel for shoes and boots, which shall have the fewest possible working parts,

and be very easily fitted and changed from .newable heel.

heel to heel.

The invention consists essentially in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the drawing which forms part of this specification.

In the drawing, Figure 1 shows a shoeheel of the usual construction, ready for the reception of my improvedheel-piece or re- Fig. 2 shows in perspective my improved heel, in the position adapted to be fitted to the heel shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a sectional elevation of the heelproper and the heel-piece when assembled. Fig. at shows a perspective outside arrange, ment of the parts when assembled.

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents the heel-proper, and 11 the heel-piece of rubber or the like,.and which has the plate 12 secured to it. This plate 12 is use as the means of securing the heel-piece to the heel proper, and also for keeping the heel-piece in proper alinement when on the heelproper. The plate 12 is secured in the heelpiece by ,having the flanges 13 offset in the 2 fashion shown in Fig. 3, which I have claimed in prior application in the U. S. A, (date Feb. 5th, 1914, Serial No. 816683). and is also dished in the center as indicated by'le, the dished part being bent out in the same direction as the flanges 13, namely into the rubber; this is done, to make the periphery of the heel bind against the periphery of the heel-proper, when the two are put together.

The plate 12 is provided with a number of offset projecting points 15, which are heel-proper;

liormed integral with the plate preferably,

on the opposite side from the,

nd pro ect flanges 13. These points-or stickers .wI'" adapted to enter a short distance into the leather of the heel-proper, and prevent a rotary motion of the heel-piece on its fasteniug screw 16, which is passed through an orifice 17 in the center of the depression of,

the plate 12 and screwed into the heelproper. The rubber of the heel-piece is formed with an opening 18 to admit of the head of this screw. In fitting these heels, the heel-piece is placed against the heelproper in the position it is intended to occupy ultimately, and the fastening screw 16 is inserted and screwed home into the it may or may not be necessary to use an awl to start the hole 19in the heelproper for this screw. The stickers may be caused to penetrate the either by the pressure of the foot, and subsequent tightening of the screw, or by tightening of the screw only.- When. they have once penetrated the heel-proper they prevent rotation' of the parts. If the heel-piece becomes Worn down at one of the right and the left shoe may be taken ofi, and changed for one another, and the stickers will at once center the shoe and the heel-piece in their proper place. If new heel-proper heels are fitted, they will automatically center themselves in the holes made by the stickers of the old heel-pieces.

Since many changes might be made in the.

construction of this invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the annexed claims,

it is intended that all matter contained in this specification be considered illustrative rather thanas binding in detail.

What I elaimas mydnvention is:-

1.v In a shoe heel, jaheel-proper, a heel-- piece, a dished metallic plate formed with offset 2 flanges on bne side and spurs. on the other side secured thereto, said heelpiece having a single transverse orifice approximately centrallysituated, and a single wood-screw arranged to bind the parts to-. gather.

2. In a shoe-heel. a heel-proper, a heel piece, a metallic plate formed of a single piece of sheet metal deformed to have 2 I In witness-whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the %resence of two Witnesses. DYVARD CUVELIEB.

flanges on one s ide and spurs on the other side, said plate flanges being embedfied in said heel-piece, and a, single centrally situated binding member arranged to secure Witnesses:

5 said plate against' said heel-proper and. cause C. W. FIDLER,

said spurs to engage said heel-proper. EUGENE M. LAMB. 

